Focus and fear: Why bankers are cancelling their holidays
You don’t want to be that guy; desperately searching for a signal for your mobile phone, so you can conference into an urgent meeting while your family lazes on a remote Mediterranean beach. You need a...
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Deutsche Bank’s head of technology banking has launched his own fintech firm
Jason Gurandiano, the Deutsche Bank managing director who quit abruptly during the middle of an acquisition deal, has launched his own technology consultancy. Gurandiano departed Deutsche Bank earlier...
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Morning Coffee: The trader who made $34m during the chaos, investment banks...
In case you’re wondering that the market slump correction was in any way detrimental to all apart from HFT firms, Bloomberg has uncovered an individual day trader who pocketed $34m during the market...
View ArticleThis man will hire you into a front office banking job now
If you’re coming back to work after the official end to summer 2015 and you’re thinking about finding a new job, you need to get in touch with Murray Roos. Murray is your man. At least he is if you’re...
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Goldman Sachs’ GSessions creator on why banks stifle innovation
Chris White has been working for large investment banks since the late-1990s, first as a trader and later working on electronic trading platforms. But the creator of Goldman Sachs’ corporate bond...
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Is Nomura about to make rates layoffs too?
Nomura’s mid-August credit layoffs sent a chill through trading floors in London. The temperature could be about to fall a few notches again. – Rumour has it that the Japanese bank is about to make...
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Senior credit banker quits job, becomes blogger
What do you do when you lose your job in credit these days? You probably don’t go straight out and find a new one – most banks had a terrible second quarter in credit and are now looking at cutting...
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The toughest investment banking interview questions and how to answer them
Within the next few weeks, investment banks will start inviting their favourite applicants in for interviews. Full time analysts are typically interviewed first, with summer analysts usually...
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Your finance career depends upon understanding this. How to get Google to...
When Blythe Masters makes a pronouncement about the future, it’s worth paying attention. As Bloomberg amply points out, the ex-CFO of J.P. Morgan’s investment bank invented credit default swaps (CDS)...
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Morgan Stanley’s new guide to the best investment banks to work for in 2015
Morgan Stanley’s banking analysts have produced a new report on the performance of leading investment banks in 2015. If you’re a finance professional and are contemplating where to send your resume, we...
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Strange ways investment banks will be attracting talent
Offshoring is old hat. Internal mobility is a lot like hard work. The new thing investment banks need to start doing to bring in talent is ‘excubation’. If this sounds like a term coined by a...
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Meet the students who ALREADY HAVE internships at Morgan Stanley, J.P....
Most major investment banks have only just started accepting applications for their summer analyst programs in 2016. It’s sort of weird, therefore, that there are already people out there who’ve...
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Morning Coffee: M&A bankers and traders the darlings of investment banking in...
Now it’s time to start thinking about the third quarter reporting season, the question has to be asked whether investment banks are heading for a post-correction slump or a mere wobble in an otherwise...
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CFA, MBA, or…coding course?
Jordan Poulton is a man with a vision. “In future, there will be machines, there will be people who tend the machines, and there will be people living in mud huts, ” he says, only half-jokingly. “If...
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The ultimate guide to writing achievements for your resume
You are revamping your resume for your next banking job. You know that the key to any successful CV is to incorporate achievements rather than simply list what you did in each job. But what, exactly,...
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35 year-old bankers who lose their jobs in 2015 may never get rehired
2015 is not going well. After the chaos of August, J.P. Morgan analyst Kian Abouhossein is predicting that banks’ revenues and earnings per share could fall all the way through to 2017. And not just in...
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Morning Coffee: Everyone else was ‘spoofing’ too, says flash-crash trader
Navinder Singh Sarao, the British trader accused by US prosecutors of contributing to the 2010 flash crash, wasn’t just a found of living a parsimonious lifestyle. His alleged penchant for a technique...
View ArticleAll in the name of serving clients – my move from Banking to Consulting
Before working at KPMG, Sonika worked in a product control role in a City investment bank. She is currently a consultant in KPMG’s Financial Services Advisory practice. You recently moved across to...
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The five things recruiters look for on your hedge fund resume
You want to work for a hedge fund. That’s fine, but don’t expect finding a job to be easy. Like private equity jobs, hedge fund jobs are massively over-subscribed. If you’re going to get in, you’ll...
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Ex-top Deutsche M&A banker perfects the art of switching jobs, keeping...
Jason Gurandiano has had a very busy month. Until August, the 41 year-old was working for Deutsche Bank, where he was head of financial technology banking in the U.S. When he quit, Gurandiano was...
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